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"I felt that humanity existed, and that it existed without clothes. How can I possibly explain this? It was naked, humanity seemed naked, and all these tubes and buttons and machineries neither came into the world with us, nor will they follow us out, nor do they matter supremely while we are here. Had I been strong, I would have torn off every garment I had, and gone out into the outer air unswaddled. But this is not for me, nor perhaps for my generation. I climbed with my respirator and my hygienic clothes and my dietetic tabloids! Better thus than not at all."
...
He paused. Tears gathered in his mother's eyes. She knew that he was fated. If he did not die today he would die tomorrow. There was not room for such a person in the world. And with her pity disgust mingled. She was ashamed at having borne such a son, she who had always been so respectable and so full of ideas. Was he really the little boy to whom she had taught the use of his stops and buttons, and to whom she had given his first lessons in the Book? The very hair that disfigured his lip showed that he was reverting to some savage type. On atavism the Machine can have no mercy.
...
He paused. Tears gathered in his mother's eyes. She knew that he was fated. If he did not die today he would die tomorrow. There was not room for such a person in the world. And with her pity disgust mingled. She was ashamed at having borne such a son, she who had always been so respectable and so full of ideas. Was he really the little boy to whom she had taught the use of his stops and buttons, and to whom she had given his first lessons in the Book? The very hair that disfigured his lip showed that he was reverting to some savage type. On atavism the Machine can have no mercy.
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Don't remember anything about this book, but since I finished it, it must be fine.
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Very good sci-fi short story. Which isn’t as sci-fi anymore, lots of the things mentioned there are reality for us.
As powerful as it is short, read it!
The level of prescience in this book is mind boggling. Over a hundred years old, but Forster details so precisely how technology has a grip on humanity, how we will die in great numbers if the machine ever stops, yet how trusting and in denial we are...it's eerie.
It horrifies me, the way that horror used to strike fear into me when I was young, but not in a good way. My fears have grown up with me, and the truth in books like these terrify me as they tower over me and seem so dreadfully inescapable.
Especially sitting here in my room, channelling Vishta, typing on my smartphone, communicating into the digital void.
The level of prescience in this book is mind boggling. Over a hundred years old, but Forster details so precisely how technology has a grip on humanity, how we will die in great numbers if the machine ever stops, yet how trusting and in denial we are...it's eerie.
It horrifies me, the way that horror used to strike fear into me when I was young, but not in a good way. My fears have grown up with me, and the truth in books like these terrify me as they tower over me and seem so dreadfully inescapable.
Especially sitting here in my room, channelling Vishta, typing on my smartphone, communicating into the digital void.
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes